Summary

Raphael often wakes in cold sweats these days. The scene of the desert closing around him playing over and over in his head as if his mind is trying to punish him for the deed he was given no choice in.

'No choice?' that voice in his head asks with the tone of sarcasm as if to call him on his bluff. 'No. No I had no choice. I obey. I am good.' he responds as if its not his own mind betraying him. Turning against him.

Summary

And then it was just the two of them, like it had always been and it was always meant to be, just the two of them in the world and nothing else mattered. Dean Winchester and Castiel went unnoticed, completely forgotten about. Raphael focused on Azazel and Azazel only for Raphael.

Right back to that single breath, that one question, "Run away with me?"

Summary

Raphael is crushed by his guilt. Gabriel clings tight to his secrets. Michael hides behind righteousness and bravado. Uriel refuses to remember. When ties of brotherhood are sundered, when secrets that had been long buried threaten to come to light and old wounds start bleeding anew, a seemingly impenetrable prison is breached and the forces of Heaven are showed that sometimes forever can be much shorter than it might seem and those often ignored are the most dangerous of all.